Ten minutes.
$50,000.
A network for life.

[ PROVENANCE ]

It took us years to find each other.

Before that, we were here:

Somewhere, someone is watching a cell do something the textbooks say it can't. Someone is winding their third motor tonight, because the second one almost worked. Someone is running a hundred-person operation from a dorm desk. Someone is doing something we can't even imagine. They haven't met yet.

We ran the Duct Tape Prize, then the Eigenprize, and found incredible people. Every fellow points somewhere different.

Together, they span everything. That is the Basis.

[ THE OFFER ]

[ THE FELLOWS ]

Fellows are named on a rolling basis. Every cohort joins one community. Being listed is optional — some fellows will never appear here.

v₁Ayush Noori Ayush Noori
Hunts treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, diseases millions live with. Joined a Mass General neurodegeneration lab in high school; thirty peer-reviewed papers before finishing Harvard. Rhodes Scholar; DPhil at Oxford.

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[ ADVISORS ]

They've been where the cohort is going.

David Cahn David Cahn
Ran venture at Coatue. Joined Sequoia as a partner at 27 and wrote "AI's $600B Question."

Kate Rubins Kate Rubins
Former NASA astronaut and the first person to sequence DNA in space. Spent nearly a year aboard the International Space Station, working on biology and exploration in extreme environments.

Spiros Michalakis Spiros Michalakis
Quantum physicist at Caltech. Solved the quantum Hall problem, first of the thirteen millennium problems of mathematical physics. Coined Marvel's Quantum Realm.

Xuanhe Zhao Xuanhe Zhao
MIT professor of mechanical engineering. Makes hydrogels tougher than cartilage and tape that seals wet organs in seconds.

Paul DiTuro Paul DiTuro
US special forces and particle physicist. Searched for the Higgs at Fermilab. Now technical director of the Aerospace and Neuro Performance Lab at MUSC, enhancing the mind-body connection for astronauts, the military, and Olympic athletes.

…More coming

Interested in advising? mark [at] orbit.engineering

[ REMARK ]

There are no intractable problems.

The world changes when the right people find each other.

[ APPLY ]

Ten minutes.

Submit your portfolio and any other useful information, and answer the questions as honestly as you can.

If we choose someone you nominated, the $1,000 is yours.

And $3,000, at our discretion, for a great submission that isn't chosen.